{"id":3934,"date":"2012-08-15T00:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2012-08-15T00:49:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T04:49:05","slug":"first-alert-defender-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=3934","title":{"rendered":"First Alert Defender Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DEFENDER-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3938\" title=\"DEFENDER 2\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DEFENDER-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good\u00a0Wednesday everyone.\u00a0I am proud to welcome\u00a0the most powerful doppler radar in Kentucky to KWC.\u00a0First Alert Defender is available on our radar page at the top of the blog.\u00a0Kentucky Weather Center\u00a0and WKYT are now officially partners,\u00a0so you will be noticing some\u00a0awesome changes going forward. You knew it was only a matter of time before I hooked these two up. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk a little bit about the actual weather.<\/p>\n<p>Temps today will warm a\u00a0few degrees compared to the past week. Central and eastern Kentucky will see readings topping out in the low and middle 80s with\u00a0warmer readings in the west.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Temperatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kymesonet.org\/wxmaps\/tair_f_large.png?nowtime=1325915126\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t rule out a stray shower or thunderstorm across\u00a0the east as some\u00a0moisture hangs tough.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday looks like the warmest day of the past week and the warmest day\u00a0over the next week. Temps will hit the mid and high 80s\u00a0for many with some low 90s west. Clouds will increase\u00a0 during the\u00a0afternoon ahead of our strong cold front arriving\u00a0on Friday.\u00a0Scattered storms develop later Thursday and will become widespread on\u00a0Friday.\u00a0Some strong storms and heavy\u00a0rains will be possible.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these storms may impact the kickoff to the high school football season Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Highs Friday will generally run in the 70s and that&#8217;s a trend that carries us through the weekend and into early next week. Lows in the 50s will be common during this time.\u00a0Our northwesterly\u00a0flow will need to be watched\u00a0for a stray shower or two at some point.<\/p>\n<p>The overall pattern for the next 10 days\u00a0should see temps below normal.\u00a0Blocking near Greenland means a deep trough hanging tough in the eastern part of the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Euro-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3935\" title=\"Euro 2\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Euro-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Euro-21.png 324w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Euro-21-135x300.png 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can live with that.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful Wednesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good\u00a0Wednesday everyone.\u00a0I am proud to welcome\u00a0the most powerful doppler radar in Kentucky to KWC.\u00a0First Alert Defender is available on our radar page at the top of the blog.\u00a0Kentucky Weather Center\u00a0and WKYT are now officially partners,\u00a0so you will be noticing some\u00a0awesome changes going forward. You knew it was only a matter of time before I hooked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}